 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist2 more than eighteen hours; and I think" there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean tit the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pagina’s
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 pagina’s
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours: and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1900 - 190 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pagina’s
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 pagina’s
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
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the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since, by... 
